From Edward William Lane, An Arabic-English Lexicon (1863–1893), under the root نفخ. Digitised by the Perseus Project (Tufts); Arabic decoded from Perseus's transliteration.
نَفَخَ بِفَمِهِ , (K,) aor. نَفُخَ , [accord, to Golius and Freytag, incorrectly, نَفَخَ ; see Kur, iii. 43, &c.] inf. n. نَفْخٌ ; (Msb;) and ↓ نفّخ , (K,) inf. n. تَنْفِيخٌ ; (TA;) He blew with his mouth; sent forth wind from his mouth; (K;) this is done in taking rest, and in labour or exertion, and the like. (L.) نَفَخَ is mostly used as a neut. v.; but sometimes it is trans., as many have asserted: you say نَفَخَ الصُّورَ , as well as نَفَخَ فِيهِ , He blew the trumpet, or blew into the trumpet: (MF, TA:) نَفَخَهُ is a dial. form of نَفَخَ فِيهِ : (S:) also, نَفَخَ فِى النَّارِ [he blew the fire; or blew into the fire]: [see 8 (last sentence) in art. قوت :] and نَفَخَ فى الزِّقِّ [he blew into, or inflated, the skin]: and sometimes one says نَفَخَهُ . (Msb.) نُفْخُوا occurs in a verse of El-Katámee for نُفِخُوا . (S.) ― -b2- نَفَخَ الشَّيْطَانُ فِى أَنْفِهِ (assumed tropical:) [The devil blew into his nose]: said of him who aspires to that which is not for him. (TA.) ― -b3- نَفَخَ شِدْقَيْهِ (tropical:) [He inflated, or puffed out, the sides of his mouth; meaning] he was proud, or affected pride. (A.) ― -b4- نَفَخَهُ , aor. نَفُخَ , inf. n. نَفْخٌ , It (food) inflated him, or filled him. (L.) ― -b5- نَفِخَ , aor. نَفَخَ , inf. n. (L) نَفَخٌ , (S, L,) He (a man, S, and a horse, L) had inflated testicles. (S, L.) ― -b6- Also, He (a beast of carriage) had his pasterns inflated with wind. When a beast thus affected walks, the humour subsides. (L.) ― -b7- نَفَخَ نِهَا Pepedit; crepitum ventris emisit. (S, K.) ― -b8- نَفَخَتِ الرِّيحُ The wind came suddenly. (L.) ― -b9- نَفَخَتْ بِهِمُ الطَّرِيقُ (tropical:) The road cast [or brought] them suddenly [to a place]: from نفخت الريح . (L.) -A2- نَفَخَتِ الضُّحَى , inf. n. نَفْخٌ , (tropical:) The morning became advanced, and the sun high. (L, K.) You say also النَّهَارُ ↓ انتفخ (tropical:) The day became advanced, the sun being high, (S, L,) an hour before noon. (L.)
نَفَّخَ see 1.
تَنَفَّخَ see 8.
انتفخ It (a thing, S, as a skin, Msb,) became inflated, or puffy; (S, A, Msb;) as also ↓ تنفّخ : (A:) also, it became swollen; i. q. وَرِمَ . (K, art. ورم .) ― -b2- انتفخ He became inflated, or filled, by food. (L.) See 1. ― -b3- اـِنْتِفَاخُ الأَهِلَّةِ (tropical:) The bigness [or swelling] of the new moons. Occurring in a trad. respecting the signs of the last day. (L.) [See انتفج .] ― -b4- انتفخ عَلَىَّ (assumed tropical:) [He became inflated against me; i. e.] he was angry with me. (TA.) And انتفخ لَهُ (assumed tropical:) [He behaved angrily to him]. (TA in art. زحر .)
نَفْخٌ [Flatulence. ― -b2- And hence,] (tropical:) Boastfulness; arrogance; pride; (S, K;) [inflation with pride]: pride was termed by Mohammad نَفْخُ الشَّيْطَانِ . (TA, art. همز .) ― -b3- رَجُلٌ ذُو نَفْخٍ , as also ذو نَفْجِ , (tropical:) A boastful, arrogant, proud man; (S;) [a man inflated with pride].
نُفُخٌ (assumed tropical:) A young man (TA) full of youthfulness [or youthful plumpness or vigour]; (K;) and so, without ة , a damsel. (TA.)
نَفْخَةٌ and نُفْخَةٌ and نِفْخَةٌ Inflation of the belly (S, K) by food &c. (TA.) You say بِهِ نفخةٌ He has an inflation of the body: (K:) and أَجِدُ نفخةً I experience an inflation of the body. (S.) ― -b2- [And A flatulent humour of any kind: a meaning well known.] ― -b3- النَّفْخَةُ The blast [of the horn] of the day of resurrection. (L.) ― -b4- نَفْخَةٌ A slight odour: differing from نَفْحَةٌ , which is a plenteous odour. (L.) ― -b5- نَفْخَةُ الشَّبَابِ (tropical:) The chief part of youth. (L.) نَفْخَةُ الرَّبِيعِ (tropical:) The time of the season called الربيع when the earth produces herbs, or herbage: (A:) or نُفْخَةُ الربيع , and نِفْخَتُهُ , the time of that season when vegetation has ended. (AZ:) ― -b6- نُفْخَةٌ A disease that attacks a horse, and makes his testicles to swell. (L.) ― -b7- See نُفَّاخٌ .
نَفْخَا=ءُ (applied to land, or ground, S) i. q. نَبْخَا=ءُ : (S, L, K:) or elevated and good or fertile ground, in which is no sand nor stones, producing a few trees; and so نَهْدَا=ءُ , except that this latter is more flat and extensive: or soft land, in which is elevation: (L:) or tumid earth, that breaks in pieces when trodden upon: (TA, voce رَخَّا=ءُ :) pl. نَفَاخِىُّ : it has a form of pl. proper to substs, because it is an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates. (L.) ― -b2- نَفْخَا=ءُ The upper part of the bone of the ساق [or shank, or tibia]. (K.)
نَفِيخٌ One who is employed to blow a fire. (K.)
نُفَّاخٌ An inflation of a humour occasioned by disease, (T, K,) arising in any part: (T:) a humour; as also ↓ نَفْخَةٌ . (L.) ― -b2- See نُفَّاخَةٌ .
نُفَّاخَةٌ A bubble upon water. (L, K [but in some copies of the K, for الحَجَاةُ is erroneously put الحجارة .]) ― -b2- [The air-bladder of a fish;] an inflated thing in the belly of a fish, which is (as they assert, L,) its نِصَاب [app. meaning its most essential part, or element,] by means of which it rises in the water, and moves to and fro. (L, K.) ― -b3- A bladder of a plant (S, O, L, voce قَتَادٌ , &c.) N. un. of نُفَّاخٌ (AHn, in TA, voce عُشَّرٌ .) [And in anatomy, A cell.]
مَا بِالدَّارِ نَافِخُ ضَرَمَةٍ [There is not in the house a blower of a fire; i. e.,] there is not in the house any one. (S.) ― -b2- نَافِخٌ حِضْنَيْهِ [A man inflating, or puffing out, his sides;] inflated, and ready to do mischief, or evil. (L, from a trad.)
أَنْفَخُ A man, (S, L, K,) and a horse, (L,) having inflated testicles: (S, L, K:) syn. of ا=دَرُ . (Mgh, in art, ادر .) ― -b2- Also, A beast of carriage having his pasterns inflated with wind: see نَفِخَ . (L.)
رَجُلٌ أُنْفُخَانٌ , and اـِنْفِخَانٌ , and أُنْفُخَانِىٌّ , and اـِنْفِخَانِىٌّ , fem. with ة , (assumed tropical:) A man full of fat; (K;) inflated with flaccid fat, and so ↓ رحل مَنْفُوخٌ ; pl. مَنْفُوخُوَن . (TA.)
مِنْفَخٌ : see what follows.
مِنْفَاخٌ (S, L, Msb, K) and ↓ مِنْفَخٌ (Msb) The instrument with which a fire is blown; (Msb, K:) a blacksmith's bellows: the thing with which a fire or other thing is blown: (L:) the thing into which one blows. (S.) See also كيرٌ ― -b2- مِنْفَاخُ الرَّاعِى The instrument [i. e. reed-pipe] of the pastor, with which he calls together the camels. (A, TA, voce شِيَاعٌ .)
مَنَافِخُ الشَّيْطَانِ (assumed tropical:) The suggestions of the devil (TA.)
مَنْفُوخٌ (assumed tropical:) Big-bellied; (K, TA;) [inflated in the belly]. ― -b2- Also, (K,) ↓ مُنْتَفِخٌ , (TA,) (tropical:) Fat; as an epithet; (A, K;) [inflated, or swollen, with fat]. See أُنْفِخَانٌ . ― -b3- مَنْفُوخٌ (tropical:) A coward: so called because he swells out his lungs. (L.)
مُنْتَفِخٌ (tropical:) A man inflated, or puffed, or filled, with pride, and with anger. (L.) See مَنْفُوخٌ .
The roots that most often share a verse with ن ف خ. Window: the verse. Measure: the number of distinct verses in which both roots occur (of the 18 this root appears in). Ubiquitous roots are excluded so genuinely connected concepts surface — see the method.
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وَرَسُولًاإِلَىٰبَنِىٓإِسْرَٰٓءِيلَأَنِّىقَدْجِئْتُكُمبِـَٔايَةٍمِّنرَّبِّكُمْأَنِّىٓأَخْلُقُلَكُممِّنَٱلطِّينِكَهَيْـَٔةِٱلطَّيْرِفَأَنفُخُفِيهِفَيَكُونُطَيْرًۢابِإِذْنِٱللَّهِوَأُبْرِئُٱلْأَكْمَهَوَٱلْأَبْرَصَوَأُحْىِٱلْمَوْتَىٰبِإِذْنِٱللَّهِوَأُنَبِّئُكُمبِمَاتَأْكُلُونَوَمَاتَدَّخِرُونَفِىبُيُوتِكُمْإِنَّفِىذَٰلِكَلَـَٔايَةًلَّكُمْإِنكُنتُممُّؤْمِنِينَ
Reference 3:49إِذْقَالَٱللَّهُيَٰعِيسَىٱبْنَمَرْيَمَٱذْكُرْنِعْمَتِىعَلَيْكَوَعَلَىٰوَٰلِدَتِكَإِذْأَيَّدتُّكَبِرُوحِٱلْقُدُسِتُكَلِّمُٱلنَّاسَفِىٱلْمَهْدِوَكَهْلًاوَإِذْعَلَّمْتُكَٱلْكِتَٰبَوَٱلْحِكْمَةَوَٱلتَّوْرَىٰةَوَٱلْإِنجِيلَوَإِذْتَخْلُقُمِنَٱلطِّينِكَهَيْـَٔةِٱلطَّيْرِبِإِذْنِىفَتَنفُخُفِيهَافَتَكُونُطَيْرًۢابِإِذْنِىوَتُبْرِئُٱلْأَكْمَهَوَٱلْأَبْرَصَبِإِذْنِىوَإِذْتُخْرِجُٱلْمَوْتَىٰبِإِذْنِىوَإِذْكَفَفْتُبَنِىٓإِسْرَٰٓءِيلَعَنكَإِذْجِئْتَهُمبِٱلْبَيِّنَٰتِفَقَالَٱلَّذِينَكَفَرُوا۟مِنْهُمْإِنْهَٰذَآإِلَّاسِحْرٌمُّبِينٌ
Reference 5:110وَهُوَٱلَّذِىخَلَقَٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِوَٱلْأَرْضَبِٱلْحَقِّوَيَوْمَيَقُولُكُنفَيَكُونُقَوْلُهُٱلْحَقُّوَلَهُٱلْمُلْكُيَوْمَيُنفَخُفِىٱلصُّورِعَٰلِمُٱلْغَيْبِوَٱلشَّهَٰدَةِوَهُوَٱلْحَكِيمُٱلْخَبِيرُ
Reference 6:73فَإِذَاسَوَّيْتُهُۥوَنَفَخْتُفِيهِمِنرُّوحِىفَقَعُوا۟لَهُۥسَٰجِدِينَ
Reference 15:29ءَاتُونِىزُبَرَٱلْحَدِيدِحَتَّىٰٓإِذَاسَاوَىٰبَيْنَٱلصَّدَفَيْنِقَالَٱنفُخُوا۟حَتَّىٰٓإِذَاجَعَلَهُۥنَارًاقَالَءَاتُونِىٓأُفْرِغْعَلَيْهِقِطْرًا
Reference 18:96وَتَرَكْنَابَعْضَهُمْيَوْمَئِذٍيَمُوجُفِىبَعْضٍوَنُفِخَفِىٱلصُّورِفَجَمَعْنَٰهُمْجَمْعًا
Reference 18:99يَوْمَيُنفَخُفِىٱلصُّورِوَنَحْشُرُٱلْمُجْرِمِينَيَوْمَئِذٍزُرْقًا
Reference 20:102وَٱلَّتِىٓأَحْصَنَتْفَرْجَهَافَنَفَخْنَافِيهَامِنرُّوحِنَاوَجَعَلْنَٰهَاوَٱبْنَهَآءَايَةًلِّلْعَٰلَمِينَ
Reference 21:91فَإِذَانُفِخَفِىٱلصُّورِفَلَآأَنسَابَبَيْنَهُمْيَوْمَئِذٍوَلَايَتَسَآءَلُونَ
Reference 23:101وَيَوْمَيُنفَخُفِىٱلصُّورِفَفَزِعَمَنفِىٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِوَمَنفِىٱلْأَرْضِإِلَّامَنشَآءَٱللَّهُوَكُلٌّأَتَوْهُدَٰخِرِينَ
Reference 27:87ثُمَّسَوَّىٰهُوَنَفَخَفِيهِمِنرُّوحِهِۦوَجَعَلَلَكُمُٱلسَّمْعَوَٱلْأَبْصَٰرَوَٱلْأَفْـِٔدَةَقَلِيلًامَّاتَشْكُرُونَ
Reference 32:9وَنُفِخَفِىٱلصُّورِفَإِذَاهُممِّنَٱلْأَجْدَاثِإِلَىٰرَبِّهِمْيَنسِلُونَ
Reference 36:51فَإِذَاسَوَّيْتُهُۥوَنَفَخْتُفِيهِمِنرُّوحِىفَقَعُوا۟لَهُۥسَٰجِدِينَ
Reference 38:72وَنُفِخَفِىٱلصُّورِفَصَعِقَمَنفِىٱلسَّمَٰوَٰتِوَمَنفِىٱلْأَرْضِإِلَّامَنشَآءَٱللَّهُثُمَّنُفِخَفِيهِأُخْرَىٰفَإِذَاهُمْقِيَامٌيَنظُرُونَ
Reference 39:68وَنُفِخَفِىٱلصُّورِذَٰلِكَيَوْمُٱلْوَعِيدِ
Reference 50:20وَمَرْيَمَٱبْنَتَعِمْرَٰنَٱلَّتِىٓأَحْصَنَتْفَرْجَهَافَنَفَخْنَافِيهِمِنرُّوحِنَاوَصَدَّقَتْبِكَلِمَٰتِرَبِّهَاوَكُتُبِهِۦوَكَانَتْمِنَٱلْقَٰنِتِينَ
Reference 66:12فَإِذَانُفِخَفِىٱلصُّورِنَفْخَةٌوَٰحِدَةٌ
Reference 69:13يَوْمَيُنفَخُفِىٱلصُّورِفَتَأْتُونَأَفْوَاجًا
Reference 78:18No published investigation cites this root yet. When one does, it appears here — the evidence links back to the argument.